linux-kernel - [tip: x86/build] x86/Kconfig: Clean up LLVM version checks in IBT configurations

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Message-ID: <175544652925.1420.2858880325323032694.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:02:09 -0000
From: "tip-bot2 for Nathan Chancellor" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
 "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@...en8.de>, x86@...nel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: x86/build] x86/Kconfig: Clean up LLVM version checks in IBT
 configurations

The following commit has been merged into the x86/build branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     2c6a28f3ef729ed2d5b174b4e0f33172fb286bab
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/2c6a28f3ef729ed2d5b174b4e0f33172fb286bab
Author:        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:31:42 -07:00
Committer:     Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@...en8.de>
CommitterDate: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:10:39 +02:00

x86/Kconfig: Clean up LLVM version checks in IBT configurations

The minimum supported version of LLVM for building the x86 kernel
was bumped to 15.0.0 in

  7861640aac52 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0"),

so the checks for Clang 14.0.0 and ld.lld 14.0.0 or newer will always been
true. Clean them up.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@...en8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250814-x86-min-ver-cleanups-v1-6-ff7f19457523@kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 58d890f..85b9126 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1753,11 +1753,7 @@ config X86_UMIP
 config CC_HAS_IBT
 	# GCC >= 9 and binutils >= 2.29
 	# Retpoline check to work around https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93654
-	# Clang/LLVM >= 14
-	# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/e0b89df2e0f0130881bf6c39bf31d7f6aac00e0f
-	# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/dfcf69770bc522b9e411c66454934a37c1f35332
-	def_bool ((CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option, -fcf-protection=branch -mindirect-branch-register)) || \
-		  (CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 140000)) && \
+	def_bool ((CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option, -fcf-protection=branch -mindirect-branch-register)) || CC_IS_CLANG) && \
 		  $(as-instr,endbr64)
 
 config X86_CET
@@ -1769,8 +1765,6 @@ config X86_KERNEL_IBT
 	prompt "Indirect Branch Tracking"
 	def_bool y
 	depends on X86_64 && CC_HAS_IBT && HAVE_OBJTOOL
-	# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/9d7001eba9c4cb311e03cd8cdc231f9e579f2d0f
-	depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 140000
 	select OBJTOOL
 	select X86_CET
 	help